Bonus Sunday

Welcome to a  foot-stompin’ knee-slappin’ rip-snortin’ Bonus Sunday! Up first is the complete issue of the Summer 1972 Vacationland Magazine.


Vacationland Summer 1972 – 44mb






There’s a nice two page article about “A World of Laughter”.






The “centerfold”: fun times in the early 70’s at Disneyland.






From page 18, Busch Gardens is getting a new five acre addition. I loved the “barrel-flume” thrill ride. Be sure and download the entire issue, there’s some other fun stuff in there too!






Now as an extra Bonus, here are some pages from the Spring 1972 Disney News magazine. These images were donated by Tokyo Magic over at Meet the World blog (link). What a great cover!






The Country Bear article is similar to the one in the Vacationland above. The text is almost verbatim. The photos are also almost exact. There’s just enough difference in layout and graphics to make sure they are not identical. The Disney News was for “Magic Kingdom Club” members.











Thanks Tokyo Magic!

News from Disneyland - Spring 1972

With all those high unemployment numbers lately don’t you wish it was 1972? Let’s pretend it’s the Spring of 1972 and you could be one of the 1,900 people that Disneyland needs for the summer. With the grand opening of Bear Country just weeks away (its 1972 remember?) the park is adding another 100 jobs to the already needed 1,800 for a total of 6,300 for the summer, WOW, do they even have that many now? I bet not after the last round of layoffs….








The Country Bears made the cover of the SUMMER 1972 Vacationland magazine!







Come back tomorrow on Bonus Sunday for the complete issue.

Happy Days at Disneyland - March 6-7-8, 1974

It’s Happy Days at Disneyland - March 6-7-8, 1974. Happy Days for the Pacific Egg and Poultry Association. A three day convention at Disneyland, nice!

“There are more then half a hundred fabulous adventures and attractions”, or maybe just over fifty…





FYI: “Happy Days” began its long run on ABC starting January 15, 1974, The "Happy Days at Disneyland" flyer was printed in January 1974, coincidence?

From the Spring of 1974 here’s a fun little “Disneyland Guide”. Those with a sharp eye (Progressland) will notice this is from last years post (link), I’ve got plenty of un-posted guides still, but I like to keep the time periods matched up in the posts.


Complete Disneyland Guide Spring 1974 (12mb)

Disneyland Hospitality Ticket Books Display Card

Here’s a fun little display card for local hotel/motel rooms dated August 1976. The “Exclusive Ticket Value” was for Disneyland’s Hospitality Ticket Books. These ticket books were only available at your hotel/motel registration desk and not available at the Disneyland Main Gate.






Here’s an unused Hospitality book from June 1978. As you can seem, the Hospitality book included two days admission to Disneyland. You better not lose the “2nd Day” ticket with the booklet in your pocket all day on the first day!  Nice LOWEST serial number too!  You could still use this “intact” ticket book for admission to the park today (maybe even for two days) but that would be crazy, of course some day I may try it!






Fresh Globe tickets - smells better than money.






The back of the Hospitality book from June 1978 shows a ¢75 price increase from the August 1976 display card.






Lastly, here’s an attraction list from the back of a different June 1978 ticket book. I couldn’t get myself to bend back those fresh tickets so I used an empty book instead.

Magic Mountain - A New World of Family Entertainment

It’s been a while since we’ve shown some love for Magic Mountain so let’s go ahead and set the way back machine to 1971 or “year one” for Magic Mountain. If you missed the Magic Mountain Guest preview day post be sure and check it out, there’s some amazing concept art in that post (link).

This brochure is not dated but must be from 1971 or possibly early 1972. Only the original attractions are listed and the ticket price of $5 for adults is the lowest price I’ve seen in print.






Too groovy baby. I like the purple tank top with the white pants, seriously I do...






“A True Natural Wonderland”. Wonderland sure, but Natural? Valencia is a nice place, but it doesn’t naturally have waterfalls and fountains that shoot 30 feet in the air. "One price buys the Whole Mountain", no pesky ticket books to bother with!






A Total Entertainment Experience. It really was…






I think I’ll use my Master Charge thank you very much.





If you’re really into Vintage Magic Mountain and you haven’t seen all my previous posts, check them out here (link). This makes the 15th post for Magic Mountain!

Bank of America Brochure - June 1992

Since yesterday’s post was full of black & white photos, how about some more? If I wasn’t so lazy I’d look up the last day the Bank of America was on Main Street, but this must be one of the last brochures from the bank. It's dated June 1992 and tells the history of Bank of America.











The only mentions of Disneyland are on the back page and a brief note in the middle section talking about “the exhibit at the Disneyland office”.

Ecran Magazine - August 1955

Welcome to Magazine Monday! Digging a little deeper into the stack of “odd” magazines, this week’s feature is “Ecran” Magazine from August 1955.  I think it’s called “Ecran”, which translates to “Screen” in French. The magazine itself does not appear to be in French. From what I can tell it was printed in Argentina or Mexico or maybe Chile.

A wonderful photo of Judy Garland graces the cover of this faded and fading fast magazine. The paper is similar to the lined paper we used in 1st grade. Oddly, Judy’s photo does not appear anywhere else in the magazine.






“Disneylandia” I bet that translates to “Disneyland” You’re on your own with the rest of this four page article. I must confess to only speaking English. If anyone wants to translate some of this please do.










“Klenzo” detergent with a catchy name! Nice prizes.






A couple of the “Hollywood” sections.








Here’s three ½ page advertisements that I pasted together, I guess it was 1955 everywhere huh?






What is this lady using to make her face look like wax and why?






Mari Blanchard is looking mighty fine on the back cover, a “B” movie actress according to Wikipedia (link). Who is this Eduardo guy that signed both the front and the back?





Neat way to do the date whoever you are!






Since this magazine had Judy Garland on the cover but nothing about her inside, I thought I throw in this little video. From 1943 Live “Command Performance” radio show done for the WWII troops. Judy sings “Over the Rainbow” and nails it with such precision and emotion it’s spooky.

Walt Disney Productions Annual Report - 1975

Today we have something a little different for Bonus Sunday. With so much news on the “down” economy, I thought it would be fun to look at something on the “up” side. From 1975 it’s Walt Disney Productions Annual Report “Decades of Progress”.

I left out some of the report as its just dry accounting statistics like the breakdown of $520 million in revenue. The first sections are filled with great color photos and concept art as shown below. If you’d like high-resolution views of the pages shown below you can download the whole set here:


Walt Disney Productions 1975 Annual Report (selected pages) – 56mb






A report from E. Cardon Walker has a major focus on Florida's EPCOT, the Courtyard of Nations and the International Village. There is some amazing concept are on the next few pages.










Some talk of the Tokyo Bay Project, fascinating World Bazaar Concept art.






I knew about Mineral King and the Country Bear association, but I’ve never heard of the “Independence Lake Project”, did this project suffer the same fate as Mineral King (as Card Walker states: “The trail and subsequent appeal could delay a final decision on the Mineral King project perhaps another three years).






The Disneyland year in review page. 53 million dollars in ticket and ride sales, dang! Exciting stuff with the new Space Mountain. And who can forget the fun of the big heads parade!






Walt Disney World kicked Disneyland’s rear in all sales, WOW! Talk about a cash cow. The grand opening of Space Mountain was really the grand opening of Tomorrowland, the place was pretty bare for this large addition.






Photos of the top executives that made WDP generate all that cash! WDP paid off all of its prior year’s debt in 1975 and all other indicators were looking up, up, up. If only we can get there again!  Roy looks cool doesn’t he?







Come back tomorrow for Magazine Monday, it’s an odd one.